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HANSARD Ethiopia, Sudan and Tigray: Humanitarian SituationIt is a genuine pleasure to see you in the Chair for today’s extremely important and particularly timely debate, Ms Bardell. I thank the right hon. Member for Islington North…03 Nov 2021HANSARD Ethiopia, Sudan and Tigray: Humanitarian SituationThank you, Ms Bardell. It is a pleasure to be back. Picking up where I left off, as we have heard from the right hon. Member for Islington North, the types of human rights…03 Nov 2021HANSARDBlack History MonthIt is a pleasure to see you in the chair for this important debate, Sir Graham. Like everyone else, I start by thanking the hon. Member for Streatham (Bell Ribeiro-Addy) for…28 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Eleventh sitting)Will the Minister give way?26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Eleventh sitting)I ask the Minister a very, very simple question. How will a charity or any other organisation—26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Eleventh sitting)Indeed, or a Back-Bench MP—how will they know when they are in that 12-month period before a general election?26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Eleventh sitting)Will the Minister give way?26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Lady has reminded me of our very first evidence session and what she said to Richard Mawrey QC, which was that increasing turnout and participation makes fraud harder.…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)On the contribution that refugee communities can and do bring to Scottish society, will my hon. Friend join me in acknowledging and congratulating the contribution made by the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)For all the rancour and argument that there has been in this Committee over the last few weeks, I think we all agree that voting is a fundamental democratic right that has to be…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)I admire my hon. Friend’s powers of provocation, and still the Government Members slumber. Still nobody gets to their feet— [ Interruption. ] I will take that intervention. No, it…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)It gives me enormous pleasure to move new clause 4, which stands in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North. The SNP believes passionately in this and has…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)To correct the record, I said that it is utterly self-serving, and completely politically partisan, and fundamentally undemocratic.26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that any lingering doubt that any of us may have had about the Government’s motivation in introducing the Bill is done away with by the parachuting in of…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right, though I admire his endless optimism that the chances are middling to none. He is far more optimistic than me…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)Has my hon. Friend, like me, barely slept at night since hearing the tales of widespread personation, voter fraud, intimidation and postal vote harvesting—all manner of fraud,…26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the Minister for that pre-prepared paragraph. We will push this new clause to a Division. Question put, That the clause be read a Second time.26 Oct 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North, who laid out a compelling and detailed case as to why…26 Oct 2021